Chief Steward

Role summary

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The Chief Steward oversees the hotel’s stewarding department, ensuring the kitchen, dishwashing areas, equipment, and back-of-house facilities meet high standards of cleanliness, hygiene, safety, and efficiency. The role typically requires previous experience in hotel or restaurant stewarding, supervisory ability, knowledge of sanitation procedures, inventory control, and safe chemical and equipment use. The successful candidate should be organized, physically fit, reliable, and comfortable working shifts, weekends, and holidays. Expectations include supervising stewarding staff, coordinating with chefs and food-and-beverage teams, maintaining sufficient operating supplies, controlling costs, training employees, enforcing food-safety standards, and responding quickly to operational needs in a busy luxury-hotel environment.

About the employer

W Bangkok is a luxury lifestyle hotel operated under W Hotels, part of Marriott International, one of the world’s largest hospitality companies. Located in Bangkok’s Sathorn district, the hotel combines contemporary design, energetic dining and nightlife, modern guest facilities, and the distinctive, social atmosphere associated with the W brand. Marriott International operates thousands of hotels and resorts across numerous countries and is known for structured career development, international mobility, employee benefits, and professional hospitality standards. At W Bangkok, employees work in a fast-paced setting serving leisure travelers, business guests, events, and high-end food-and-beverage customers. The property places strong emphasis on guest experience, creativity, teamwork, service consistency, cleanliness, and operational discipline. Employment conditions may include service charge, meals, uniforms, training, medical or insurance benefits, and other benefits subject to the local offer and Marriott policies.